| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: pages 246-253. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / R. Barton Palmer -- A very American fable: the making of a Mohicans adaptation / Martin Barker and Roger Sabin -- Romancing the letter: screening a Hawthorne classic / Michael Dunne -- The movies in the Rue Morgue: adapting Edgar Allan Poe for the screen / Paul Woolf -- Readapting Uncle Tom's Cabin / Stephen Railton -- Screening authorship: Little Women on screen 1933-1994 / Deborah Cartmell and Judy Simons -- Melville's Moby Dick and Hollywood / David Lavery -- Screening male sentimental power in Ben-Hur / Marcia L. Pentz-Harris, Linda Seger, and R. Barton Palmer -- John Huston's The red badge of courage / Jakob Lothe -- Translating Daisy Miller / Douglas McFArland -- Jane Campion's The portrait of a lady / Harriet Margolis and Janet Hughes -- The Europeans-and the Americans / Brian McFarlane -- Sister Carrie becomes Carrie / Stephen C. Brennan -- Hollywood and The sea-wolf / Tony Williams -- An untypical typicality: screening Owen Wister's The Virginian / R. Barton Palmer. |
| Summary |
An up-to-date illustrated survey of the important films based on, or inspired by, nineteenth-century American fiction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- Film adaptations.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic books.
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Film adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Palmer, R. Barton, 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nineteenth-century American fiction on screen. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521842211 0521842212 (DLC) 2007296786 (OCoLC)70399625 |
| ISBN |
9780511275135 (electronic book) |
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0511275137 (electronic book) |
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0511273622 |
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9780511273629 |
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0511274432 (electronic book) |
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9780511274435 (electronic book) |
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9780511271199 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511271190 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511270819 (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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051127081X (electronic book ; Mobipocket Reader) |
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9780511607554 (electronic book) |
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0511607555 (electronic book) |
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128081537X |
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9781280815379 |
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9786610815371 |
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6610815372 |
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0521603161 (Paper) |
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0521842212 (Cloth) |
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9780521842211 (hardback) |
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9780521603164 (paperback) |
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0521842212 |
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9780521842211 |
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0521603161 |
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9780521603164 |
| Standard No. |
9780521842211 (hbk.) |
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9780521603164 (pbk.) |
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